Show el A Successful Career 11 fr 0 CHARLES R. R FLINT Is one of the most v brilliant examples of the de man manin in American finance and industry He He went I to New York from Thomaston Me at lat the age of f 25 and started is care career carer r in the big I metropolis in the inconspicuous capacity o of dock clerk The other t say aay ay at the age of 75 73 71 years he was busily engaged in his twenty- twenty tI third ird large industrial merger a hundred milTton mil mil- dollar consolidation of West Virginia coal ies t During his career in New York Flint organized or- or companies with a total capital of a billion dollars Although coming from p or r parents and starting out as a a. dock clerk clerk Charles B. B Flint has been called the father Jather ther of trusts He has always staunchly defended the he principle of consolidations of in industrials n claiming that that it brought down the production and rand distributing costs Among the noteworthy companies that r. J r. Flint launched and which have been a i. i credit to American merican industry and land enterprise are the United States Rubber company the American rican Wool company the American Company co Sloss-Sheffield Sloss Steel and Iron company com com- pany any Tabulating Recording comi company com com- i any pany a y the National Starch company and rand others |